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Here's a photo of the AC pad of the house I just bought. Maybe it shouldn't be called an AC pad because IT HAS NO AC!!!

This is a property that adjoins my 12 acres that I just acquired when it became available on a foreclosure. It's a two-bedroom, built in the 60s, in great shape, and comes with 5 1/2 acres.

One or two days before I closed, maybe even the morning I closed, the AC walked away. I didn't notice it gone until late the next afternoon. Now Allstate is stalling because the unit might have been stolen while it was still in the bank's possession. Don't know how that's going to turn out.
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Obviously there are a lot of recyclers who don't check things properly, and/or just don't care. They caught a man locally recently who stole an A/C unit and not only was he charged with theft and possession of stolen property, they charged him with releasing a harmful substance into the atmosphere!
 
Junk guys around here know the law, never sell in the county you get the stuff in. The recyclers get the stuff rolled in a pile and on a truck or railcar before you know it is gone.BTDT
 
It became such a problem here especially at churches and other buildings where people weren't around for long, predictable periods of time that the state legislature here in NC passed a law requiring that you show a receipt for a new unit dated within the last 60 days to sell an AC coil and certain other parts to a scrapper. The scrapyards now for the most part have cameras that take your picture next to the load on the scales before they let you unload. Several years ago before all the new rules I went to a scrap yard and a guy was letting the gas out of old window units by poking a screwdriver into the coil and letting the gas out. They just piled anything that was hauled in into a mountain of scrap with plenty of oil, etc... soaking into the ground. The guy with the grapple kind of sorted it into some rough looking trucks. I even saw a good sized MF combine laid on its side come in on a trailer behind a 2 ton truck. Needless to say, they were in the newspaper not too long after and reopened under new management.
 
That suprises me that somone was fined for venting freon. I repeatly called EPA about a large recycler that has scrappers dump ac units and refrigeration equipment on a pile where they mash it compact for loading rail cars. You can see the clouds of freon as well as oil coming out of the pile when they mash it. Finaly sent two emails to the the clean air department head. Never got a follow up what so ever. That seems like a good place for a budget cut.
 
And due to the number of thefts from power companies sub-stations, they passed a law that if someone is electrocuted while committing a theft from a power company the power company cannot be sued for damages.
 
(quoted from post at 00:15:12 02/27/13) And due to the number of thefts from power companies sub-stations, they passed a law that if someone is electrocuted while committing a theft from a power company the power company cannot be sued for damages.
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Sounds like common sense to me. I am sure everyone else on the line likes watching TV. :roll:
 
(quoted from post at 22:55:01 02/26/13) Here's a photo of the AC pad of the house I just bought. Maybe it shouldn't be called an AC pad because IT HAS NO AC!!!

This is a property that adjoins my 12 acres that I just acquired when it became available on a foreclosure. It's a two-bedroom, built in the 60s, in great shape, and comes with 5 1/2 acres.

One or two days before I closed, maybe even the morning I closed, the AC walked away. I didn't notice it gone until late the next afternoon. Now Allstate is stalling because the unit might have been stolen while it was still in the bank's possession. Don't know how that's going to turn out.
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hey have gotten so bold around here that they strip out the coils right beside your house & leave compressor, fan, housing. What they haul away is smaller, not as visible to police and less identifiable! Druggies.
 
We bought a foreclosed house last year that had a compressor that looked just like that. In our case we knew it was gone before we closed the deal. The bathroom fixtures were gone too but at least they left the copper wire in the house.
 

Feel for you. I, too, just purchased a Fannie Mae foreclosure on 3.5 A that abutted my vacant 55A property. I've been fixing it up for my daughter to live in and we'll use it as a base while we build our retirement home on the vacant property (wife was getting tired of going into the woods when we're out there if you get my drift). Also being concerned about the AC disappearing, I drove by and checked the house on the way to the closing to avoid just what happened to you. Figured if it was gone or there was any other damage, I'd bring it up at the closing with pix. If it was still there when I closed and got stolen after closing, it would be a call to my insurance company.

In fact, I took pix of the entire house and grounds the day I submitted my offer, the day they accepted my offer and the day of closing. I figured if there was a problem I wanted documentation.
 
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